time delay Tom Delay
The Doonesbury site has a often-funny “Say What?” snippet off in a corner. I had to share today’s: “For the majority leader of the United States Senate, in the time of war, with soldiers dying on the ground, announcing that we have lost the war, is very close to treasonous. I looked it up while [...]
Posted by Chris in Government, Iraq, You have got to be kidding on April 26th, 2007 | Comments Off
Mr. Bush, tear down this wall
Oh, you have got to be kidding me: A U.S. military brigade is constructing a 3-mile-long concrete wall to cut off one of the capital’s most restive Sunni Arab districts from the Shiite Muslim neighborhoods that surround it, raising concern about the further Balkanization of Iraq’s most populous and violent city. U.S. commanders in northern [...]
Posted by Chris in Iraq, Security Theater, You have got to be kidding on April 20th, 2007 | Comments Off
just taking a stroll
Think Progress paints a slightly different picture than John McCain would like: Sen. John McCain strolled briefly through an open-air market in Baghdad today in an effort to prove that Americans are “not getting the full picture” of what’s going on in Iraq. NBC’s Nightly News provided further details about McCain’s one-hour guided tour. He [...]
Posted by Chris in Iraq, You have got to be kidding on April 2nd, 2007 | Comments Off
British backtrack on Iraq death toll
British backtrack on Iraq death toll, from the Independent Online: British government officials have backed the methods used by scientists who concluded that more than 600,000 Iraqis have been killed since the invasion, the BBC reported yesterday. The Government publicly rejected the findings, published in The Lancet in October. But the BBC said documents obtained [...]
Posted by Chris in Government, Iraq, Medicine, Science on March 27th, 2007 | Comments Off
